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How to Fall in Love with Your Life During Quarantine
March 31, 2020September 22, 2020 Kelsey Horton

How to Fall in Love with Your Life During Quarantine

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At the time of this writing, April 2020 is blooming and we all are (or should be!) collectively social distancing in a major way. Some

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3 Reasons Why Your Writing Feels Stuck
February 25, 2019August 14, 2019 Kelsey Horton

3 Reasons Why Your Writing Feels Stuck

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“Blogging just seems kindof easy for me, you know?” I told my friend over the phone, explaining my predicament. After years of creating positive social

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Safe and Trusting: A Grounding Prayer
January 22, 2019August 14, 2019 Kelsey Horton

Safe and Trusting: A Grounding Prayer

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I wrote this grounding prayer to help you come back home to yourself in moments of doubt, confusion, and anxiety. I hope it helps you

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2018 Year in Review
January 11, 2019January 11, 2019 Kelsey Horton

2018 Year in Review

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Hi gorgeous readers, I meant to post a round-up of my 2018 sometime in December. An end of the year blog post… at the end

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Three Steps to Find Your Voice
November 5, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Three Steps to Find Your Voice

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Have you ever scrambled around trying to find your glasses, only to realize twenty minutes later they were perched on your head the whole time?

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September 20, 2018November 6, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Bring Your Dreams to Life Training Series – Video 3

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In this free video training we talk about time — how to manage it, how to drop the guilt over taking time for ourselves, and how to break our work into bite-sized tasks to cut through the feeling of overwhelm.

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September 10, 2018July 30, 2019 Kelsey Horton

You Don’t Have To Blow Their Minds

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“I have written 11 books but each time I think ‘Uh-oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody, and they’re

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June 7, 2018 Kelsey Horton

How to Reconnect with Your Creative Voice

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Hey beautiful friends, I have been stubbornly clinging to the idea that each of my blog posts has to be a standalone piece of art

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October 26, 2017October 29, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Start Before You Know Your Target Market

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“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the

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Hope and Light for 2017
December 20, 2016October 29, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Hope and Light for 2017

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“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside

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Forge Your Own Comeback
December 8, 2016October 29, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Forge Your Own Comeback

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“…if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping

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Hover in the Hesitation
October 4, 2016October 29, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Hover in the Hesitation

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Since my last blog post, I moved away from Illinois (where I have spent my entire life), and I’m writing this post from the couch of my

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Listen To Your Impulses
September 1, 2016October 29, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Listen To Your Impulses

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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.” ~Sylvia Plath   Epiphanies. Insights.

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May 17, 2016October 29, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Taking Our Talents Seriously

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“What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it

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February 1, 2016October 29, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Robot Coconut Trees: A Creative Timeline of My First Book

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Every creative project has a backstory, a truth behind the curtain, a core reality that deviates from the flashy final product we see at the

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December 30, 2015October 29, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Goodbye, I Love You: An Ode to 2015

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“I live in a state of joyous anticipation, as well as quiet realization” – Ernest Holmes   At the end of each year I publish

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June 9, 2015October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

The Story of Starting My Blog (dream now, begin now)

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This week, I celebrate two anniversaries in my creative life: Four years ago, my mentor and I created a farmers market. We spent several years

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December 31, 2014October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Au Revoir 2014: A Tribute

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I try to imbue all of my blog posts with a sense of timelessness – I purposely leave out the daily drudgery and updates about

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August 7, 2014October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

For Writers Who Don’t Know What to Write About

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“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” – Andy Warhol   My blog has been frozen in

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February 27, 2014October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Dear You, Love Spirit: A Transformative Exercise

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“Perhaps someday I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”

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February 6, 2014October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

How to Daydream

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“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” ― Edgar Allan Poe   Unfocus your

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January 30, 2014October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Creative Writing as a Pathway to Self Love

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“Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct it to write

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December 26, 2013October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Au Revoir, 2013: A Tribute

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I love the fresh start of a new year. Every December I daydream in the realm of possibility – I envision the person I want

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November 19, 2013October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Authenticity Meets the Little Puzzle Piece

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“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” – May Sarton One winter when I was

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September 19, 2013October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Creative Respiration: Mining Your Life for Writing Content

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“Write What You Know” seems like the most repeated writing advice out there. It can also come off as the most confusing and the most

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July 30, 2013October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Seeking Healing through Conscious Storytelling

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Stories make up the latticed marrow of my bones. I want my stories flushed out for the world to see in their flaws and imperfections,

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July 11, 2013October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Knowing What You Know – Part I

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“At the center of your being you have the answer: you know who you are and you know what you want.” – Lao Tzu  

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June 11, 2013October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

11 Lessons from Blogging – From My Heart to Yours

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Happy first birthday to my blossoming little blog! If you have ever spent a moment on this website, I thank you from the depths of

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May 31, 2013October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Hatching Open

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“I write to discover what I know.” – Flannery O’Connor   Expression is one of the bravest things I know. It takes bravery to put

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May 15, 2013October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Tending to the Flock

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“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is

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April 29, 2013March 29, 2019 Kelsey Horton

The Joys of Being Passionate

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“All the great saints, in all the traditions, are beings who live absolute passion.” – Daniel Odier When we meet new people, one of the

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April 2, 2013October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Sabotaging Ourselves

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“Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” – E. E. Cummings  

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February 26, 2013October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Empowered Creativity

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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The

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January 27, 2013October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Honoring The Muse

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“Creativity takes courage. ” – Henri Matisse Do you spend five minutes a day checking your facebook? Do you spend five minutes a day living

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June 10, 2012October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Hello, dazzling world!

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Several years back, I received a nudge of inner guidance to start a spirituality blog. It was 2009, I was a freshman in college, and

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